Books May 24, 2010 at 4:08 pm

Regarding Mark Twain

Paul Constant
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Electric vibrating sex toy from 1910? Something Edison invented?
Vince on May 24, 2010 at 5:03 PM Report this
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Wikipedia is your friend:

"Then, in 1902, the American company Hamilton Beach patented the first electric vibrator available for retail sale, making the vibrator the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.[2]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrator_%2…
eclexia on May 24, 2010 at 8:15 PM Report this
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mark twain is awesome. i bet that book will be fascinating.
sepiolida on May 24, 2010 at 9:53 PM Report this
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For sure, the electric vibrator was a huge improvement over the coal fired steam vibrators, which, although they could vibrate with great vigor for extended periods of time, required a team of stokers and, if improperly handled, could run the boiler dry, overheat, and explode.
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